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The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
THE SOUTH, OLD AND NEW.

We hear much about what is
called the New South" What is
the New South? 1t is nothing more
or less tLan The Old South, with the
notifications resultant from the
abolition of slavery. This involved
new conditions.
We hear nothing of a new North.
The South was over come in our ciYil
war and was the loser financially as
as well as politically.
The South does not grudge to the
nation the millions of slave proper
ty taken from her and converted
INTO citizens. She does not complain
of the devastation of her properties
brought about by the necessities Of
war-not at all. The South respect
and appreciates the opinions and
feeling of the gallant Federal sol-
diers who subdued the Confederate
States.
The Confederate soldiers especial
ly appreciate the sentiment and idea
which brought the Federal soldiers
to the front and accomplished the
wars, results. There exists nothing
but good feeling from confe derate
soldiers toward their countrYmen
who fought on the other side.
They do not even want the battle
flags. If hat patriotic organization
known as the Grand Army of the
Republic i willing to be made u
political tool i'll the hands of coterie
of political hypocrites, it will die its
death and have none to mourn at its
funeral, The confederate soldier
is type of the southern people and
has no quarrel with the NOrth--af
ter % years can we not have peace?
But the confederate soldier and
the mass OF the people of the
Sonlh feel nothing but contempt for
the political and commercial boot Eicks
who in greasing their pocket books
and politics shOsst about new Sou th
as If it were the quito me of a new
deliverance from elsewhere instead
of building up by its own people.
The Turkish maxim is that hYpo-
critic occupies the 7th hell. So let
these creatures be consigned.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
TENNESSEE PRESS.
The Association to Meet at Cloud
land. July 7th.

The executive committee Of the
Tennessee Press Association have
fixed the place of the Seventeenth
annual meeting of the ass ocIation at
Cluudland Hotel-the high est hab-
itation east of the Rocky mountains
-Roane mountain, Carter county,
and the time Thursday, j ally I, 1887.
The secretary of the assoeiotlon,
Judge Pitkin c. Wright, is sending
out circular letter to the various
papers in re gard to the apprc aching
meeting. Arrangements have been
made with the East Tennessee, VIr~
gina & Georgia railroad ami leased
lines, with the Nashville, ChattanoO-
ca & St. Louis and branches, and
with the Louisville, Nashvill & Great
Southern for transportation to mem
bers to and from the meeting and
special hotel rates. Transportation
will be confined strictly to editors
and publishers of bona fde regular
ly issued publications, excluding
temporary attaches, clerks, etc, and
furnished only on cerunca & Of
the secretary. One LADY VIII be ais
ioN ed 10 accompany each gentleman
receiving q certihcate.-NashvIile
Banner
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
TIE FARMER AND THE
TARIFF,

The most striking case of political
blindness we know OF IS that of 8
farmer who takes no interest III the
tariff question.
It is the habit of the pocker
patriots who want to keep up tariff
taxation for the benefit Of their in,
dustr;es (wh ether infant or owe
grown to laugh at and make light
of the question and use ridlcule tol
argumdnt by the assertion that no
body can understand the tariff Issu Q
We were sorry in an interview re-
ported in leading paper that ever
QUE own Governor is reported t.
have replied to a question about the
tariff ''that there never was but one
man who understood itand els dead
We hope Coy. Taylor was not cor
rectlY reported. There are sHme
things about the tariff that every
man can understand
1st, The tariff is a tax, just al
the taxes We pay to our county
Trustee.
End. All our State and County
taxes are paid directly in money
upon the relative value of tax pay
ers property. The man who is worth
$50 900 pays so times as much as
the man worth $1,000, under az
v0lOren taxation. The banks, the
railroads, the manufacturing and
other corporations pay on what they
are worth.
Bird. The tariff tax, which goes
into the Federal Treasury, is tax
on co nsumers and not cd Valoren
Under this system, which is indirect
being a levy of so much per cent. OF
what we eat and wear, the poorest
man with a large family lays as
much or nearly 50 to support tn
Government as the richest man viii
the same family Numbers Of large
aggregatious of capital in the shape
of corporations pay virtually nothing
4th. 1t necessarily follows that
unless compelled by conscience
aggregated wealth prefers the sys
tenn of disburse ment Of money iron
the Federal Treasury, rather thar
be compelled to pay to the state
and counties according TO value o
what they own.
For more than % years the far
mers of the land have been the dray
horses for the protect ed industries
The surplus in the Federal Treasur.
should be applied to the publl
debt and tariff tax alton should bt
so reduced as to leave no surplu
hereafter.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

Fairchild and his G, A. r. chill
drtn ought to raise a whoop about
other trophies they captured from
thc South much more dangerous
than the flags. Missionary Ridge
and Richmond were captured, and
and are now in possession of the con
iedeIates. They ought TO have
these dangerous reminders removed
to Washington and locked up at
once. There is a fort che mule
west Of Bolivar which the q. A II.
captured, ana which We now pos
sess. Fairchild ought to have IT
svooped up and hauled to the Cap
ital alstnal. It's doing the Repub
liean party ntimte devilment here,
it makes us ieel awfully rebeIish
every time we look at it. o, Mr..
Fairchild, Mr. Halstead, aud Mr..
Foraker, please sirs, come down,
and remov this formidable relic OF
rebel warfare from our midst, that
il may no langer menace and threat-
en- the eace, liberty, and dea r
pre- sel walton u Tie q. A. II. I'm
ION OF States.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
BUSINESS INTEREST s.

The phrase Business Int,re Is "
has become quite catclword in the
last fifteen years. We used to un-
,delstund it to mean the interests of
all classes of business including
mercantile, manufacturing, agricul-
tural, mechanical, Mining and pro
iessional, in fact all interests, wheth~
tr corporate or individual, alik.
Bnt in this age of swindling "com-
bines,' and commercial progress 5,
1t has been monopolzed by the cor
poraGons and commercial combi-
nations.
Delegations representing the So
called Business Interests general
~ swami around all political con-
Mentions, state aud national.
The trouble is, these delegations
iIentfy the business interests Of the
country with the especial interests
of their own pockets and forget
altogether duty to their neignbor.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

Some smart little Republican,
with about a thlmblefull OF brains IN
his cranium, wrote the New York
Herald TO know why it was talking
up for The Demo cratic Adminisu a
ton, as it was an independent paper
and the following is an extract
from its pointed reply:
"But since the war what has
happened? The Republicans have
had full swing. They fell from patri-
otism as the rebellious angels did
from heaven. They carpetLagged
the South, and with the cowl of
sanctity ontheir heads, plundered
1t as the Jacobins p'undered Paris.
They spent scores of millions on the
navy and left a lot Of rotten, worth
less hu ks behind. They were in
COLLISION with land robbers, and
whole tracts OF the public domain
were stolen outright and sold to
foreign syndicates. They used the
patronage of government in the
most defantly corrupt manner, until
the voters of the country got togeth
er and threw them ont of Washing
ton neck and heels.>
Now we have an honest admins
tration. Public office IS becoming
public trust Our merchants
are prosperous and contcnted. The
people are happy"
This is fearful Ind ctmeut 81 the
q. 0. L. but every worl OF it is true
That lmrfy g'ot on'y 'carpethaggs@.."
the oouth, plunlerei the treasury.
sto'e the public domain and robbed
the people of their constitutional
rights by means of corruption ard
frauds, bat it has never ceased to
Witty and SANDER the peoP'e Of the
South. Lying, anu abusing he pee
rle Of the South has been the stock
in trade OF the Republican party
from It's birth to this good hour. It
is, even now, perfectly ev deut that
the bloody-shirt will be the platform
on which they expect to regain the
control of the country in 1888.
Ii so, they will get into the White
Houee over the opposition of The
soIld South. This Is not he people
to embrace that party whose hand
has ever been against them. The
people OF the S,uth are satisfied that
the Democratic party should con-
troll this Government for at least
ths nsxt hundred years.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

The New York Observer has COM
j,iled tie following valuable church
statistics: Methodist preachers a.
459; members, 3 Cos, 4l3; total, g.
720.573, Baptist preAc hers, 1881;
memUers, 2,425 SIS; total, 2,443-
200. Lutheran preachers, 3l52;
mem bers. 8.210; total, $685. COO.
Presbyterian preachers, sos; menu
beis. 938, 500, total 94o,756. 1he
next strength is less than coo, 000,
while the smallest the Shakers, num-
Der only $4,000 members, with IS
preachers.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

The New York Herald says
"Good crops are the basis Of all
prosperity in this country. A boun-
uful harvest brings large earnings to
tile railroads that transport It, and
cash to the faamers that raise it,"
The neat and accurate shadiGg Of
these sentences are worthy of no.
tice, especially as they occur in a
rather boomul argument about rail-
road shares. agriculture, the
basis Of all prosperity" brings Large
earnings to The railroad" and to the
farmers who produce them, some
"cash." just sol But what mo-
tive has the Herald in counteuan
lng a system ofrhings which rem
ders Charge earnings impossible to
The producer, and. commercially
speaking, the creator ct tins "basis
ui ali pros Gritty" as well as TO Mid
die mel? Could amy th-rg lie more
Unfair, more indecent, more unjust,
more wicked, more infamous, and
lLu,ughly devii:sb than torig the
currency aud tariff Jaws so as 10 rob
and steal The earnii IS OF these, the
p.eatest benetactOrs Of society, in
dustry. and wealth! Tia change OF
policy can MOI be attempted as
matter Of justice, every man ought
AT least 10 have the sense to see that
production can DOT lie crippled with
oct "a corresponding Injury 10 con-
sumpuon--Couuer journal.
OI5 Of the most Interesting ma
chimes used ~ The !AuudItes OF our
ciut is called a ..wiizzsr., 1T dries
clothes by making 6,Ou0 revolutions
4 minute One 81 these days the
whizzer will b, introduced INTO the
editorial room, aud the bore who
, ersis,s IN talking While tie editor
i busy Up 20 his ears viii be
invited 20 get iuto the whzzer
sal dry up ~,.a
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

No larchis j communist, or labor
kicav ever owns a home. 1t is the
man who " orks daily and constant
ly-wto honoIs thesoil or shop
saves his earnings-who wisely in
vests his savinEs-he is the man who
becomes the owner of home.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
Rapdall os an Obstructionist.


Posing as the savior of the De mo
cratic party scans to be favorlte
attitude of Mr.. Samuel J. Randall
AS a matter of fact, it is rather Al
thin pretext that Mr.. Randall has
for posing as member of the Demo-
cratic party at all. He now ia k OF
the danger of any radical inter fer
ence with the tariff, which ne says
would be "like taking hold of the
hot end Of poker" AS an illustra-
ton that is very good; as an ar@u-
ment it amounts to nothing. Mr..
Randall gives no good reason for
his assertion that it would be dan =
perous for the Democratic. party to
revise and amend the tariff. He
realizes that 1t is impossible to do SO.
The country has a right to expect
that during the next session Of con-
oress the Democrats Will make a
vigorous. determined, intelligent
and unitel effort in the dire cion of
tariff reform. Except for Mr.. Ran
dali and his Republican allies come
thing would already have been
done. There is nedium betWeen
the stan taken by Mr.. Carlisle and
that occupied by Mr.. Rardall-
the Chicago platfOrm-upon whsch
every Democrat can stand without
doing violence to his conscience or
injurlng his constituency.-Memphis
Avalanche
This IS sensible talk. Mr.. Randall
il a man of braines and influence,
and manages to carry with Iii a
sufficient number of d emocrats in
each congress to defeat tariff reform
measures. He is certainly an OBJ
strnctionlst. But he is not an OBJ
structionist, because he sees that
Democratic doctrine is being per-
verted, and is seized with a right
eous desire to preserve its purity ana
perpetuiiy. But on the contrary he
slabs the very life and soul of De-
mocracy. The Dem ocratic party
has always opposed tax which has
for its object the nurturing and fos-
tering of individual Industries at
the expense of the many; that is, a
tariff for protection to manufac nring
industries. This has been a cardinal,
distinctive feature of De mocracy for
10 these many days. Upon this creed
it has fought its thousands Of battles,
and upon this creed it has won its
thous snds of welcomes. But Mr..
Randall places his big self right
across the thoronghfare along which
the Democratic legions march, and
orders them to about face. But they
refuse. Then he joins himself and
squad with the enemy, and at the
point OF the bayonet holds them
back Nv hat cussed Democracy! Re-
pudlate such traitors, and give US
pnre party though itshould reduce
US To mere shadow.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
Politics and Taxation.

Mr.. Lhncoln's notice was once at
tracted By an outbreak in the nur-
sery where the boys were having an
exceeding warm controversy because
Bob refused to give Ted an apple
he lad. Bob" SAID Mr.. Lincoln,
"give Ted the apple to keep him
quiet" "No." said BIB. Il want
the apple to keep me quiet" Mr..
Lincoln said lie thought it as strong
a plea for justice as he ever heard.
Since the war until now the pro-
tected industries have insisted that
the tariff should not be reduced,
because any change, they declared,
would ''distGrb business" The
same plea is t0-day advanced by
Mr.. Sherman and by Mr. Randall.
In order not to disturb business, Mr..
Sherman wants larger appropria :
tons; there is no limit to his liber-
atty with the money of other per-
sons. He recognizes the unan-
swerable argument presented by the
surplus revenue Of $100,00O,0 600,
and he would dispose Of This surplus
by wasteful and extravagant expen~
ditures.
Mr.. Randall also recognizes the
danger to the prohibitive system,
and he has his m peculiar devices
for relieving tie pressure. He is
Democrat, pied ged by his party to
a reduction of the tariff to a reve-
nue. basis, pledged to an economical
administration of the Government;
yet he insists that in order to relieve
the situation we mus paw interest
in advance and pur1h ,se b. IDS IN
the IN irket. Then, When Congress
meets ln~Decem Der, he would have
the tobacco tax rapeaIe AMI tile
tariff left undis urb; /. 3 lindness
could not be deeper lian this. These
politicians certainly have no con-
Gel ticn OF tie vast in
teIe SIS involved IN This discussion,
For twenty years after the war this
burden Of taxation has been b orne
without complaint. Hithi4 that
period, in addition to the extraordi>
Larry expenses due t. the habits of
extravaganza engendered by the war,
the people OF this country have paid
one~!rall' the war deb and nearly a
thousand millions in pensions.
All this under high protective,
in many cases a prohibitige, tariff.
Surely, if there is any virtue in Il
protective tariff our infant indus
tries could row stand alone If af-
Ter all this coddling and bottle-suck-
ing, they still require the same treat
ment, there must be something wong
with that treatment. 1t has always
been advocated as a temporary ex-
pedient, not as a permanent policy.
Mr. Clay urged it as an American
polIcy-that IS policy which would
make a new country independent
of the blasted torelgne Wei. we
have had it tried in a way he had
never dreamed of If it has failed
in its purpose, if after all these years
we are not independent of the for
eigner, then we have followed ia
lacious argument, and it is time t.
aban Ion 1t. Courier Journal.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
MALARIA

Twenty-Five hundred dozen bot
ties Of Agne Conqueror ordered in
one month. 1t positively eradIcates
all Malaria, Fever anu Ague, Bilious
and Intermittent Feyers in any
climate. Read our book of one
thou SAUDI testimonials.
DUE WEST, S. G., March y. 81.
g. G. Greer, Dear Strive will
soon need more Ague Conqueror
1t is taking like "hot cal es' and
giving satisfaction.
Yours. ELLIS BROS.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

Pllitz sr's balboa which left st
Louis TOR Sew York last week WAS
seized With violent coils soon after
tarring. anI h1l to cIm5 down to
Jet Oh lis gas.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
Yours. ELLIS BROS.

FAIRFIELD, Mo. A az. 30, Sc.
q. g. Green, Dear Sir;-Your
A2ue Conqueror knocks the Chills
and Dumb Ague every time. l
warrant every bottle and it never
tails. | haye cured cases where
qulnine had no affect what ever
Tours truly, w, II. SHAW
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

FMrchtld scems to have little or
influence in Heaven. Ills pray
err in behalt of President Cleveland
Il as been passed by entirely ulnoticed.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

There is general disposition
through out the country 10 give the
fourth Of July regular old fash
oned send>oiE
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

There is nothing equal to the Great
Acme Remedy to restore your nerves after
excessive drinking, and what is still mere
creditabie to tie remedy it viii, if used as
directed, destroyed the appetite for rum
and stimulating drinks.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

THR best eoal mine in Iowa was dis
covered by man who was fishing On
Sunday, but it was on another mans
land and all the disooyerer Fos was o
duching.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

Our advertising celun.n mean bu,
siness. See them, luis brings
nonsy 10 y town.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24

- Z ~ $3.50 ~-s33 XII
Tan sa-e in iunes. Of vtds- NJ tsat I.t ffIr
either Sex aos and rsse psy
q ~ is effected. Describe case fuly. ard staHp
&4r -zlAS&aaiaas. LII l&AEk. Box Ia AM@aAe. IN
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
a Pleasure Trir To The North.

The L. q. r. Il. will run an ex
cursion to Chicago, KaDkake e, Pom
tIac and Bloomington, Ills. leaving
Hammond La. 11.3O A. NJ, Aber-
deem 2.35 ?. NJ, Yazoo City 6.1O
p. b.. Lexington $50 2. NJ. on Ju-
ly End, 1887. This excursion il II
the interest of Southern EmigratIo II
and every city III the Souther a
States should have representation
in the party. The excursion will be
accompanied by Mr.. Chas Weinlsnd
Of Kauka es 5. ILL.,, v 30 viii mai e
al arraiig nents t'r pheasant and
profitable tr.p. Apply - A5eu,s
/. e. X. L. ior. l,r I,ugi tip f.t.es
lie {. nir,lic,a.ciit eA,rei~es d
the A1ri,u.,a.a. AMI aI,e ii neal
cole Re ii "a ss.ss .,,,.. VIZ. DszIa OH
sutGas July 81. al. class II cI-
ns z,itt ou, . Il. For tnas ct
zion aill selt round trip ,:,ke 10
staikssi = hiss. and retarn 40 oDe
fare.
1 j. CAEhrAaros
- Ateht, is0 i. X
= $500 49,
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-06-24
Tie c no, IL, i..cilt eAtTei.es 4

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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-05-18
Succeeded in Their Object.

Many years ago, in this city, (relates an
old chronicler) ten young dry goods
counter-jumpers formed a society to marry
rich girls. They swore to protect and
aid each other, and all succeeded. This
society of young clerks boarded general
ly at twenty-shilling boarding houses,
curled each others hair on Saturday
night, went to Sunday-school as teachers,
and became members of the church that
had the richest members and the prettiest
daughters. They went steadily and sys-
tematically to work in the accomplish
ment of their object, comforting with and
assisting each other in every case that re-
quired assistance. Their piety game was
the card that won in every instance.
Some of the old names which figure in
high society in New York are the direct
descendants of these ten worthy young
gentlemen.-Neao York Dry Goods
Chronicle.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-05-18
Chinese Sailors superstitiOns.

Chinese sailors leaving port attract the
attention of their divinity by the loud
beating of a gong, the burning Of fire
crackers and incense sticks and casting
food offerings in the water. All this is
to ward off evil influences. When start
ing on IA voyage they consider it unlucky
and the forerunner Of foul weather to eX-
pectorate over the bow of their vessel
They have strange custom Of painting
eyes on the bows of their craft; large
and small which are supposed to have
the gift of sight by the superstitious and
when asked to explain the utility of the
practice they stop further inquiry by re-
spending: Suppose no have eye, how
can seer"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-05-18
REMEMBERED BELLS.

Chime, chime, o mellow bells, to ring
The roundelays Of timel
Bring back TO me the budding spring;
Now, with her swelling blossoms, bring
Fond, fond the pealing chimen
That full keen voice, that heart, which
poured
Each fiery, melting, kindling word
By which my life bliss became
And upward rose in flannel
Bring back the rocking rose, the tender green,
The morning passion and the morning sheen,
The early grace, the happy mystery,
The eager rapture, by a look set free,
O'erioyed that joy TO share,
Which filed the breathing air.
Lost Youth! Lost Love! faithful Memory,
Thine shall the chimes forever, ever be!
Thine till the dream, the spell, the magic
hour,
The potency that sleeps within the flower.
A maiden breast. with timid rise and fall,
Still yields, and at that tone confesses all.
Time irks no more; set my heart toward
thee
Ring! hollow bells; ring bells of memory.
ID. H. r. Goodale, in Independent.